Vote for your favorite book from 2008

Let your voice be heard!

Teenreads.com in association with the Children’s Book Council (CBC) is giving you the chance to vote for your top five books of 2008.

Just click here to fill out the form choosing books from the list provided. Don’t see your book? Then add your own! Just make sure it was released for the first time in 2008. Not sure of publication dates? Check with amazon.com or find out from your local library.

Voting ends on January 31st 2009. So don't delay! Pick your top 5 now!

Great online games for you!

RuneScape Create your free account to log on and play this great interactive adventure combat game.

Habbo Hotel Come join this virtual hotel where you can hang out and make new friends. Walk, dance, eat, drink and chat in the cafes, restaurants, swimming pools and games rooms. The real fun begins when you decorate and furnish your own room. Then you can host your own party.

NeoPets The best Virtual Pet Site on the Internet. Sign up for an account to find new pets, play and show them off to your friends

FreeArcade.com Over 90 Java games for you online.

MyFreeArcade.com Play arcade games here!

Top Ten holiday movies - Have you seen them all?

10. Elf

9. Frosty the Snowman

8. Scrooged

7. A Christmas Story

6. The Nightmare before
Christmas

5. Love Actually

4. Holiday Inn

3. Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer

2. It's a Wonderful Life

1. Miracle on 34th Street

Miss Lou Ellen talks about Culture Kids

The uses of IMDB

Have you ever been watching a movie and thought, "Who is that actor?! I have seen them before, but where?" The answer is www.imdb.com. The Internet Movie Database, known as IMDB, is a great resource and I am surprised that there are still so many people out there who have never even heard of it.

But IMDB is so much more than just a resource for looking up actors and movies. You can find out when new movies are coming out and their release dates 6 months or more in advanced. There are trailers and pictures, sign in to see reviews and comments or add your own; Find out what's playing now and what's coming soon to DVD; Buy tickets; There is even a tv guide; And now you can also play games and watch movies!

All on one site, so don't hesitate to add IMDB to your bookmarks and search engine listing!

J K Rowlings newest book!

Release date for "The Tales of Beadle the Bard" is December 4th, so make sure you have a copy on hold!

Our muggle fairy tales like "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty" are like Harry Potter's wizard tales in "Tales of Beedle the Bard".  The first story is called the "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot".  A cauldron follows a young wizard around and around, clanging loudly, until he makes potions to help the people in the village.

Read the new Harry Potter book!  It is very enjoyable.

Written by Ozzie

The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a Wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers’ attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, thanks to Hermione Granger’s new translation from the ancient runes, we present this stunning edition with an introduction, notes, and illustrations by J. K. Rowling, and extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore. Never before have Muggles been privy to these richly imaginative tales: “The Wizard and the Hopping Pot,” “The Fountain of Fair Fortune,” “The Warlock’s Hairy Heart,” “Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump,” and of course, “The Tale of the Three Brothers.” But not only are they the equal of fairy tales we now know and love, reading them gives new insight into the world of Harry Potter. Product information taken from Amazon.com

Take a peek at the stunning copy J K Rowling has had made!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20081203/tuk-jk-rowling-s-latest-book-unveiled-6323e80.html

More Photos of the Library by Johnny Hubbard

Read it before you see it!

The movie of Inkheart comes out January 23rd '09 giving you two whole months to get hold of a copy of the book to read before the movie's release date!

Brendan Fraser plays Mortimer Folchart, Mo, to his daughter Meggie, and named "Silvertongue" by his friends and enemies for his uncanny ability to read characters out of books, making them live in the real world. But not all of the characters are good, and not all of them are grateful. Now Mo and Meggie with the help of the story's hero must find a way to send them back before the disasterous events in the book play out in the real world.

Top Ten Teen Websites

Are you in the top ten? What websites do you visit? Here are a the top ten sites visited by teens in the UK according to the Daily Telegraph:

MySpace
This is the biggest social networking site and is a household name.

Bebo
The newest fast-growing social networking site and popular among younger teens.

Facebook
started as a college SNS, but is spreading quickly to younger and older users.

YouTube
a site where users share home-made short videos. Can you believe that around 100 million videos are watched each day on YouTube?

Vox
a popular place to blog, share videos and photos and keep in touch with friends.

Kazaa
a fashionable file-sharing program that lets you download music, games, and vids.

Last FM

the ‘in’ sociable music lovers’ site. Other sites include YourSpins, ReverbNation, Mog and Rapspace.

Second Life
a 3-D virtual world game built and owned by its residents ("Avatars").

Launched in 2003, it is inhabited today by five million people. About to be targeted by greens, who estimate that each avatar has a carbon footprint larger than the average real-life Brazilian, thanks to the 4,000 servers and 12,500 PCs used to run the game. World of Warcraft is also popular

Piczo
a trendy photo-sharing site.

Wikipedia
free online encyclopedia, often used for downloading homework or just looking up random information. Just don't believe everything you read here without checking your sources!

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Reviewed by Zac

Recorded by Johnny Hubbard

Pictures of Gardendale Library Taken by Johnny Hubbard

Iron Man: the Movie

Millionaire Tony Stark gets kidnapped by an opposing force in the Middle East when one of his bombs blowup in front of him. They made him build a weapon of mass destruction. Instead, he made a bodysuit that could fight and fly him out.

It was very good. He had to face a powerful foe.


Written by Johnny Hubbard